by Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
The recent box office success of “Avatar” once again brings up the issue of 3D as a long-term format both theatrically and on home displays.  Lots of pundits have been predicting that “Avatar” will do for 3D what “Star Wars” did for Dolby Stereo - and they may well be right!
3D has been […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
The TV 3.0 Summit was one of the more interesting conferences I’ve attended recently.  Held strictly as a business conference, and a deliberately intimate one at that with probably less than 200 people in attendance, here the focus was on how technology affects content and vice versa. 
 
“TV Everywhere” was an […]

By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Since part of getting gigs in town is based on knowing what’s going on and who’s doing what, there are several online databases that any working professional should subscribe to.
 
Baseline Studio Systems’ (www.blssi.com) showbiz databases Film Tracker (www.filmtracker.com) and Studio System (www.studiosystem.com), are the Rolls Royces of showbiz databases both in […]

 
By Gordon Meyer
P3GizmoGuy@gmail.com
 
Here’s a quickie on a very cool product category I’m checking out – the new breed of pocket camcorders.  A company called Pure Digital Products came out with one of the first models in this product category – a camera roughly the size of a pack of cigarettes.  And here’s one of […]

Light the green or blue chromo screen backdrop and the foreground talent separately.
Before you begin lighting a green or blue chromo screen sequence, you need to know exactly what the backdrop will become. If possible, […]

By Iain Blair
 
Had lunch with Bruce Lyon, an old friend who is now the co-founder and CEO of hot new company, Integrated Media Technologies Inc. The Burbank-based company  - check it out at www.imtglobalinc.com - “offers ground-breaking solutions for creating, managing, storing and distributing digital media content,” Bruce told me. “We’re building […]

 By Iain Blair

With a career spanning almost three decades, Larry Gross is a renowned screenwriter-director-producer who’s written such big hits as 48 Hours, the Clint Eastwood-directed True Crime and We Don’t Live Here Anymore, which won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at 2004’s Sundance Film Festival.  He’s also won Western Heritage Awards for 1994’s Geronimo: […]

by Iain Blair
Got a call from a friend at the Berlin Film Festival where the biggest story this year is The Rolling Stones and their big new two-hour concert film, Shine a Light, directed by Scorsese. The band and the director took the place by storm when they all showed up for the premiere, and […]

 by Iain Blair

Talk about survival of the fittest! I have been chatting with Emmy-winning writer/director Todd Robinson, whose credits include 07’s Lonely Hearts (with Travolta and Gandolfini), Law & Order and Mermaids. He says the Writers Strike was a “real wake up call. I’ve been so frustrated with the movie biz, as it’s so unforgiving, […]

by Iain Blair

Latin cinema is growing by leaps and bounds, and after talking to a lot of Latin filmmakers, it seems all are very excited about the Silver Anniversary of the Miami International Film Festival (MIFF) happening later this month. In fact, MIFF’s 25th Anniversary edition program has had a 300 percent increase in […]